#pat

Prosperity cannot be experienced by living detached from Nature. Everything else is only a gradation of materialistic, earthly ambitions. We came from the stars and there lies the path to our substantive evolution. ↗

— Grigoris Deoudis

#detached #evolution #living #materialistic #nature

It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor. ↗

— Edward E. Barnard

#clouds #continents #entirely #erroneous #formed

I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#control #control freak #design #every #freak

My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#day #experiences #explode #going #got

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#deal #extremely #game #horrifying #i

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day. ↗

— Brad Henry

#day #democracy #election #election day #far

The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres. ↗

— Bruno Bauer

#enchantment #family #fascinates #fiery #gives

That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#conference #connects #consensus #continue #cosmopolitan

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#down #life #loom #morning #never

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#handled #ill #moment #pain #patiently